Former BBC journalist Martin Bashir interviewed Diana for a bombshell “Panorama” tell-all in 1995.
Fans are anxiously waiting for Season 5 of “The Crown” to drop later this fall to see the next chapter of the royal family saga.
The forthcoming season of the hit Netflix drama will take viewers into the 1990s, with one main focal point chronicling Princess Diana’s controversial “Panorama” interview with Martin Bashir.that Bashir, 59, used to procure the 1995 tell-all talk.that scriptwriters of “The Crown” have weaved in findings from the report into storylines for Season 5.
“[The season] will dramatize events surrounding the ‘Panorama’ interview, given the pivotal part it played during the time period the new series covers,” the insider said. “It will reflect what we now know about how the interview was obtained and how Diana was treated,” the source noted.Diana’s brother Charles Spencer said Bashir, who no longer works for the BBC, used fake bank documents and lied about Lady Di being bugged by security services to get the interview. Watched by more than 23 million people in 1995, Diana said “there were three of us in this marriage,” referring to husband Prince Charles and his now-wife, Camilla Parker-Bowles.